News from February 2015
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Chicago --- A suburban real estate attorney and radio talk show host was sentenced today to 70 months imprisonment for stealing approximately $2.34 million from her clients. The defendant, KATHLEEN NIEW, 59, of Burr Ridge, was also ordered to pay restitution of $2.34 million to the victims of her fraud...
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security and the Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits, and Administrative Rules will hold a jointhearing entitled, “The President’s Executive Actions on Immigration and Their Impact on Federal and State Elections" on Thursday, February...
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: The Bureau of Land Management’s Northwest and Southwest Colorado districts are seeking public nominations for 10 open positions on their Resource Advisory Councils, which advise the BLM on public land issues.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: TYLER, Texas - A 44-year-old Wills Point, Texas, man has been sentenced to federal prison for federal firearms violations in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales today.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: After a week-long trial, a federal jury convicted a trucker and Miami, Florida resident of assault upon a federal law enforcement officer. Evidence presented at trial showed that the defendant, after being asked to leave the Claude Pepper Federal Building in downtown Miami, punched a security officer in the face.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Traffic Delays to Begin Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Bismarck, North Dakota - Timothy Q. Purdon announced today that he will step down as the United States Attorney for the District of North Dakota on March 12, 2015, after serving more than four and a half years in office. Mr. Purdon has informed President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder of his decision. First Assistant United States Attorney Chris Myers will become Acting United States Attorney for the District of North Dakota on March 13, 2015.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: The United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania has filed criminal charges against Jason A. Muskey, age 37, of Moosic, Pennsylvania, the operator of a financial services firm, alleging that Muskey diverted approximately two million dollars from clients’ accounts at the firm over a seven year period from 2007 to 2014.
By Interior Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: UPCOMING EVENTS AT LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA FEB 14 TO MARCH 28.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: LITTLE ROCK - Christopher R. Thyer, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas and Grover Crossland, Resident Agent in Charge for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) announced the unsealing of a two-count Indictment on Monday, February 9, 2015, charging Donald...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Department of Justice. U.S. Attorney’s Office. District of Connecticut. Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015. Follow @USAO_CT. Deirdre M. Daly, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that CHRISTOPHER CARDONA, also known as “Tito," 30, of Hartford, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 9, 2015, Lorenzo Dale Flores, 20, a member of the Gila River Indian Community, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge John J. Tuchi to 168 months in prison. Flores pleaded guilty on Oct. 14, 2014, to second degree murder, occurring within the Gila River Indian Community.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: A criminal information was filed charging Lawrence Cline, 62, of Englewood, Ohio, with conspiracy to commit bank fraud and bank fraud related to the sale of four homes in Toledo, said Steven M. Dettelbach, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), top Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, and John Thune (R-S.D.), chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee and member of the tax-writing Senate Finance Committee, today reintroduced the bipartisan Internet Tax Freedom Forever Act. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a companion measure by voice vote last Congress.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: McALLEN, Texas ‐ Susana Munguia, 61, and Lubina Pedraza, 54, both of Hidalgo, have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit bribery and embezzlement and several counts of bribery, announced U.S. Attorney Kenneth Magidson.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: PHOENIX - On Feb. 9, 2015, U.S. District Judge Neil V. Wake sentenced Devonte Lee Silas, 19, of Hotevilla, Ariz., to 43 months in federal prison. Silas was also sentenced to a life term of supervised release following his release from prison. On Nov. 20, 2014, Silas, a member of the Hopi Tribe, pleaded guilty to one count of sexual abuse of a minor, occurring on the Hopi Reservation.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Tammy Dickinson, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that four Columbia, Mo., residents were indicted by a federal grand jury today for their roles in a conspiracy to distribute heroin in which two persons suffered an overdose.
By Commerce Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: WASHINGTON - Senate Finance Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today delivered the following opening statement at a committee hearing examining the lessons from the Tax Reform Act of 1986...
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Greenville, South Carolina ----United States Attorney Bill Nettles stated today that a Federal Grand Jury in Greenville, South Carolina, returned Indictment(s) against the following.
By DOJ Newswire | Feb 10, 2015
News Release: Jacksonville, Florida - U.S. District Judge Marcia Morales Howard has sentenced Larry Bernard Taylor (49, Jacksonville) to 20 months in federal prison for identity theft and aiding and abetting the attempted passing of counterfeit checks. He pleaded guilty on Nov. 13, 2014.
